Originally published in 2001, the second volume in Blais' prize-winning Soifs series has been hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters' gripping exploration of the world's dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes and contradictions that animate our times are reconciled.
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Originally published in 2001, the second volume in Blais' prize-winning Soifs series has been hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters' gripping exploration of the world's dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes and contradictions that animate our times are reconciled.
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THUNDER AND LIGHT (Marie-Claire Blais--Anansi, 2001)
?Governor General?s Literary Award for Translation--2002
The Jury said:
Nigel Spencer?s translation, like Marie-Claire Blais? novel, gathers in rhythm and intensity as it draws the reader inexorably into its world. Spencer rises to the many challenges of Blais? prose with deftness and grace, teaching us to read in a new way.
Nigel Spencer becomes our guide to the labyrinth of Marie-Claire Blais? fictional world. In so doing, the translator displays the same spirit of invention as the author.
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Media review:
"The Widening Gyre"
THUNDER AND LIGHT is the sequel to THESE FESTIVE NIGHTS. [The latter] centres on a celebration; THUNDER AND LIGHT turns to death, its previews and versions and aftermaths.
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Anyone who has revelled in modernism's canon--ULYSSES, and much of Gertrude Stein especially--will float into the reading rhythm...once the rhythm sets in, readers will be stunned and startled by Blais' prose. Like all true novelists, she is also a soothsayer.
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In the narcissism of photographers and dancers and poets; in communities' resistance to immigrants and exiles and their origins; in the crazy hierarchies of criminals and their judges, Blais attempts to define innocence.
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While documenting cases familiar from media overkill, Blais predicts cultural hotspots. In Manhattan, a street girl released carelessly from a mental institution warns of apocalypse..."and what if that lunatic's predictions weredead-on, then the city of New York was going down in floods, buildings and skyscrapers crumbling."
Blais is a writer attuned to our times.
--Lorna Jackson, QUILL & QUIRE, September 11, 2002
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